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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

100 Most Popular YA Books

Found this list at Helen's BookBlog via Headful of Books via Rather Barefoot Than Bookless, which mentions finding the list on a Swedish site! This list is VERY heavy on paranormal romance and fantasy, and almost entirely devoid of realistic fiction for boys. Hmmm. This is what I've been saying all along-- teachers, librarians and bloggers are predominately women and the books available reflect that. Sigh.

For what it's worth, here is the list. The books highlighted are ones I have read:

2 comments:

This is indeed a very "in the moment" list, but interesting nontheless. I have also read a number of these, and I did enjoy most. I thought of you when I was away the last two weeks. There was an essay about books and boys at the end of the NYT Book Review section on August 21st and I wondered if you have seen it. If not, I saved a copy and can maybe email it to you.

Irony of ironies, I just left you the message about the NYT article and found a link on another favorite blog of mine. This is the linkhttp://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/books/review/boys-and-reading-is-there-any-hope.html?_r=1

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